How to format your references using the Global Food Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Food Security. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Hoskins, B.J., 2003. Atmospheric science. Climate change at cruising altitude? Science 301, 469–470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nakahara, K., Miyashita, Y., 2005. Neuroscience. Understanding intentions: through the looking glass. Science 308, 644–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jefferis, G.S.X.E., Komiyama, T., Luo, L., 2004. Neuroscience. Calcium and CREST for healthy dendrites. Science 303, 179–181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaji, K., Norrby, K., Paca, A., Mileikovsky, M., Mohseni, P., Woltjen, K., 2009. Virus-free induction of pluripotency and subsequent excision of reprogramming factors. Nature 458, 771–775.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Tschirhart, M., Bielefeld, W., 2012. Managing Nonprofit Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., San Francisco.

An edited book

New, T.R. (Ed.), 2008. Insect Conservation and Islands. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Zielinska, T., 2007. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), in: Ceccarelli, M. (Ed.), Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies Part 1, History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 117–134.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Global Food Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Whatever Our Emotions Tell Us, Not All Whaling Is The Same [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whatever-our-emotions-tell-us-not-all-whaling-same/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2016. Homeland Security: Oversight of Neglected Human Resources Information Technology Investment Is Needed (No. GAO-16-253). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Norman, C.L., 2015. Perceptions of non-traditional programs within Missouri school districts (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Meier, A., Musick, K., 2012. Is the Family Dinner Overrated? New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hoskins, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoskins, 2003; Nakahara and Miyashita, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nakahara and Miyashita, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kaji et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Food Security
Abbreviation	Glob. Food Sec.
ISSN (print)	2211-9124
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Ecology Safety Research